A POET'S NOTEBOOK

A POET'S NOTEBOOK

Tullius Laurea : "On the Same"

From the "Palatine Anthology" (ca. 10th century CE)

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On the Same

As you pass the Aeolian tomb, stranger, do not say that I, the Mytilenaean poetess, am dead: human hands built this, and such works of men disappear into sweet oblivion; but if you judge me by the divine Muses, from each of whom I set a flower beside my nine, you will know that I escaped the gloom of Hades, and that no day will ever dawn that…

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